Students charged with wounding

SIX primary school students in Madang have been charged with unlawful wounding of another primary school student.
Police report at Jomba police station stated that the six were part of a group of students from Jomba Primary School who attacked a Grade 8 student from Holy Spirit Catholic Primary School on Wednesday.
The students with outsiders formed a gang and attacked the victim by cutting his head with a knife at the school gate in front of Holy Spirit Catholic Primary School, headmaster Gabriel Banglang said.
Banglang was forced to stay away when one of the gang pointed a homemade gun made from stapler when he went to assist the injured student.
Police said no report of the gun was received and they also did not confiscate any from the students arrested.
Tusbab Secondary School’s deputy principal Timothy Down said the injured boy then ran to Tusbab to get help from his brother who was a student there.
“He was bleeding heavily when he came running in,” Down said
He said the students and teachers from Tusbab arranged a vehicle and took him to the hospital for treatment.
Meanwhile, Down said bullying in schools was a matter Tusbab secondary has been monitoring closely to minimise.
He said a Grade 12 student was suspended last week for bullying a grade 9 student by removing his mobile phone from him.
He said he would investigate an alleged report regarding a hat that has been passed around classrooms for collecting lunch moneys for students and mobile phones.
It was reported that students who failed to put something in the hat would be punished.
Down said individual student or student leaders conducting this will be suspended if the report is confirmed.